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In the following tradition in Sahih al-Bukhari:
A)- Umar said that:
One should not deceive oneself by saying that the pledge of allegiance
given to Abu Bakr was given suddenly and it was successful.

B)- Umar said that Ali and Zubair and whoever was with them, and Ansar
disagreed with them :
And no doubt after the death of the Prophet we were informed that the
Ansar disagreed with us and gathered in the shed of Bani Sada.

Ali
and Zubair and whoever was with them, opposed us, while the emigrants
gathered with Abu Bakr.

C)- Umar gave his hand to Abu bakr without counselling with muslims.

He gave his hand FIRST, and then others gave their hands too.

Then there was a hue and cry among the gathering and their voices rose
so that I was afraid there might be great disagreement, so I said, O
Abu Bakr! Hold your hand out.

He held his hand out and I pledged
allegiance to him, and THEN all the emigrants gave the Pledge of
allegiance and so did the Ansar afterwards.

D)- There was news that Umar and his followers had killed Sad bin
Ubada.

(I am not saying that he did.

What I am saying that this was
a common news on those days.

That is all.

One of the Ansar said, You have killed Sad bin Ubada.

I replied,Allah has killed Sad bin Ubada.

E)- While Umar gave his hand to Abu bakr without consulting others, he
ordered that such person should be killed:
So if any person gives the Pledge of allegiance to somebody (to become
a Caliph) WITHOUT consulting the other Muslims, then the one he has
selected should NOT be granted allegiance, lest both of them should be
killed.

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F)- While he did not wish to accept others decision, he, himself,
applied his own decision to others:
there was no greater problem [compared to death of the prophet] than
the allegiance pledged to Abu Bakr because we were afraid that if we
left the people, they might give the Pledge of allegiance after us to
one of their men, in which case we would have given them our consent
for something against our real wish, or would have opposed them and
caused great trouble.

Here is the tradition:
Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 8.

817
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
I used to teach (the Quran to) some people of the Muhajirln
(emigrants), among whom there was Abdur Rahman bin Auf.

While I was
in his house at Mina, and he was with Umar bin al-Khattab during
Umars last Hajj, Abdur-Rahman came to me and said, "Would that you
had seen the man who came today to the Chief of the Believers (Umar),
saying, O Chief of the Believers! What do you think about so-and-so
who says, If Umar should die, I will give the pledge of allegiance
to such-and-such person, as by Allah, the pledge of allegiance to Abu
Bakr was nothing but a prompt sudden action which got established
afterwards.

Umar became angry and then said, Allah willing, I will
stand before the people tonight and warn them against those people who
want to deprive the others of their rights (the question of
rulership).

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In the meantime, Umar sat on the pulpit and when the callmakers
for the prayer had finished their call, Umar stood up, and having
glorified and praised Allah as He deserved, he said,.

(O people!) I have been informed that a speaker amongst you says,
By Allah, if Umar should die, I will give the pledge of allegiance
to such-and-such person.

One should not deceive oneself by saying
that the pledge of allegiance given to Abu Bakr was given suddenly and
it was successful.

No doubt, it was like that, but Allah saved (the
people) from its evil, and there is none among you who has the
qualities of Abu Bakr.

Remember that whoever gives the pledge of
allegiance to anybody among you without consulting the other Muslims,
neither that person, nor the person to whom the pledge of allegiance
was given, are to be supported, lest they both should be killed.

And no doubt after the death of the Prophet we were informed that the
Ansar disagreed with us and gathered in the shed of Bani Sada.

Ali
and Zubair and whoever was with them, opposed us, while the emigrants
gathered with Abu Bakr.

I said to Abu Bakr, Lets go to these Ansari
brothers of ours.

So we set out seeking them, and when we approached
them, two pious men of theirs met us and informed us of the final
decision of the Ansar, and said, O group of Muhajirin (emigrants) !
Where are you going? We replied, We are going to these Ansari
brothers of ours.

They said to us, You shouldnt go near them.

Carry
out whatever we have already decided.

I said, By Allah, we will go
to them.

And so we proceeded until we reached them at the shed of
Bani Sada.

Behold! There was a man sitting amongst them and wrapped
in something.

I asked, Who is that man? They said, He is Sad bin
Ubada.

I asked, What is wrong with him? They said, He is sick.

After we sat for a while, the Ansars speaker said, None has the
right to be worshipped but Allah, and praising Allah as He deserved,
he added, To proceed, we are Allahs Ansar (helpers) and the majority
of the Muslim army, while you, the emigrants, are a small group and
some people among you came with the intention of preventing us from
practicing this matter (of caliphate) and depriving us of it.

When the speaker had finished, I intended to speak as I had prepared a
speech which I liked and which I wanted to deliver in the presence of
Abu Bakr, and I used to avoid provoking him.

So, when I wanted to
speak, Abu Bakr said, Wait a while.

I disliked to make him angry.

So
Abu Bakr himself gave a speech, and he was wiser and more patient than
I.

By Allah, he never missed a sentence that I liked in my own
prepared speech, but he said the like of it or better than it
spontaneously.

After a pause he said, O Ansar! You deserve all (the
qualities that you have attributed to yourselves, but this question
(of Caliphate) is only for the Quraish as they are the best of the
Arabs as regards descent and home, and I am pleased to suggest that
you choose either of these two men, so take the oath of allegiance to
either of them as you wish.

And then Abu Bakr held my hand and Abu
Ubada bin Abdullahs hand who was sitting amongst us.

I hated nothing
of what he had said except that proposal, for by Allah, I would rather
have my neck chopped off as expiator for a sin than become the ruler
of a nation, one of whose members is Abu Bakr, unless at the time of
my death my own-self suggests something I dont feel at present.

And then one of the Ansar said, I am the pillar on which the camel
with a skin disease (eczema) rubs itself to satisfy the itching (i.

e.

,
I am a noble), and I am as a high class palm tree! O Quraish.

There
should be one ruler from us and one from you.

Then there was a hue and cry among the gathering and their voices rose
so that I was afraid there might be great disagreement, so I said, O
Abu Bakr! Hold your hand out.

He held his hand out and I pledged
allegiance to him, and then all the emigrants gave the Pledge of
allegiance and so did the Ansar afterwards.

And so we became
victorious over Sad bin Ubada (whom al-Ansar wanted to make a ruler).

One of the Ansar said, You have killed Sad bin Ubada.

I replied,
Allah has killed Sad bin Ubada.

Umar added, "By Allah, apart from
the great tragedy that had happened to us (i.

e.

the death of the
Prophet), there was no greater problem than the allegiance pledged to
Abu Bakr because we were afraid that if we left the people, they might
give the Pledge of allegiance after us to one of their men, in which
case we would have given them our consent for something against our
real wish, or would have opposed them and caused great trouble.

So if
any person gives the Pledge of allegiance to somebody (to become a
Caliph) without consulting the other Muslims, then the one he has
selected should not be granted allegiance, lest both of them should be
killed.

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More on Companions
I shall discuss some issues about the companions in this article.

For a followup to this discussion, please see "Then I Was Guided" by Dr.

Muhammad al-Tijani al- Samawi; Published in 1989 by the Fajr Establishment
in London, Great Britain.

The Author has four books out now, may Allah
(SWT) reward him generously for risking his life in the Arab World to speak
the TRUTH about the Shii/Sunni problem, and why he became a Shia.

The four books are:
1.

Thooma Ihtadiyat -- Then I Was Guided (1989)
2.

Maah al-Sadiqin -- With the Truthful Ones (1989)
3.

Fasaloo Ahl al-Zikr -- Ask Those Who Possess the Message (1992)
4.

al-Shia Hum Ahl al-Sunnah -- The Shia Are The (True) Followers of the
Sunnah (Sunnah--here meaning the custom/way of the Prophet (PBUH&HF))
(I am NOT sure if this book has been published and released to the
public yet -- It was still in the writing process when I first heard of
it).

Please note that the author, Dr.

Muhammad al-Tijani al-Samawi, spent years
of research before writing these books and becoming, himself, a Shia.

He
is also now a recognized and certified Shii Religious Scholar, with
authority to give Fatwas (Religious Opinions), which is no easy task in the
Shii schools of jurisprudence, philosophy, and the sciences.

He received
his Doctorate degree from the Sorbone University, the French University
that is ranked among the best universities in the world.

His thesis was a
discussion of al-Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talibs (AS) most famous book "Nahjul
Balagha" (The Way of Eloquence).

This book is recognized by both the
Sunnis and the Shia as a model Par Excellence in classical Arabic
Eloquence, next only to the Quran itself in beauty and grandeur.

The proof
to that statement is that the Sunnis themselves have taken it upon
themselves to explain the meanings of the text and to teach it in various
Islamic universities.

Among those Sunnis who wrote the commentary
for this book is Ibn Abil Hadid.

A mor recent commentary by the Sunnis is
of Muhammad Abduh from al-Azhar University.

The commentary of these
scholars on the book of "Nahjul Balagha" can be found in many Mosques
and libraries.

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Shedding the blood of Innocents
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al-Bukhari narrated that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH&HF) said the
following to his companions in his last speech:
Sahih al-Bukhari Hadiths: 5.

688 and 7.

458
Narrated Abu Bakra:
The Prophet said: ".

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Surely, you will meet your Lord, and He will
ask you about your deeds.

Beware! Do not become infidels after me by
cutting the throats of one another.

It is incumbent on those who are
present to convey this message (of mine) to those who are absent.

May
be that some of those to whom it will be conveyed will understand it
better than those who have actually heard it.

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